School of Engineering
and
Applied Science

Engineering
Open House

Saturday
Feb. 28, 2009

9:00AM - 3:00PM

Welcome!

• General Curriculum and Admissions Information
• Scheduled Events
• Special Presentation
• Map, Directions, Parking
• Tours
• Other Information
• Additional Program Activities
• Engineering Alumni Table (near the Office of Career Services)

Open House 2009
School of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Virginia
Thornton Hall, McCormick Road
P.O. Box 400743
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4743
seas-openhouse@virginia.edu ( best way to contact! )

Departments and Centers (Select a link below to see further information)

Exhibits

The following exhibits are from the Engineering Open House in 2008. The list of exhibits for the 2009 Engineering Open House will be added at a later date.

Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering is the rational application of engineering principles to biology and medicine. Those practicing in this inherently multi-disciplinary field strive to better the health of humankind through research, design and technology development. Current areas of research interes in Biomedical Engineering include improving and discovering new ultrasound and MRI methods for imaging selected tissues and organs within the body, developing new drug delivery technologies for treating cardiovascular disease, correcting bone defects by growing stem-cell based tissue replacements, studying how cells and tissues sense and respond to their physical surroundings, and using computational models to better understand complex intracellular signaling systems and the formation of new blood vessels in both normal and pathological conditions.

Exhibits:

Wilsdorf 201G	The BME Major: An Integrated Curriculum
Wilsdorf 201G	Spotlight on BME Student Opportunities: BME Internship Program and Career Planning
Wilsdorf 201G	Spotlight on Undergraduate Research: BME Student Projects from the 4th Year Capstone Design Course and the 2nd Year Design and Discovery Course
Wilsdorf 201G	A Video Overview of Biomedical Engineering Research at U.Va.
Wilsdorf 201G	Guided Walking Tours to the Biomedical Engineering Building (MR5) (Times TBA)

Chemical Engineering
Chemical engineers combine chemistry, biology, and other natural sciences with engineering to efficiently and safely create products for our modern world. They help give us fuels, food, synthetic materials, medicines, biotechnology products, electronic materials, paper, and many other consumer products. They also have important roles in cleaning up the environment and in pollution prevention.

Exhibits:

CHE 029	Particle Engineering Frontiers - the Nano-World Around Us
CHE Lobby	Renewable Fuels - Biodiesel from Soybeans
CHE 125	Designer Molecules and Materials - Simulating Chemistry on the Computer
CHE 317	Solid Oxide Fuel Cells - Tomorrows Energy from Today's Fuels
Wilsdorf 301	Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Civil engineers build the physical foundation of society, protect the environment and develop the infrastructure of our communities. Their work spans the planning, design, construction and maintenance of projects including dams, bridges, transportation systems, materials, water resources, aerospace structure, ships, tanks, towers, hydraulic systems, and hazardous waste management programs. They work as environmental, geotechnical, hydraulic, structural or transportation engineers in design, construction or research areas. An important part of civil engineering is applied mechanics, which focuses on the fundamentals essential in many areas of engineering, including mechanical and thermal modeling and behavior of solids and fluids in a variety of configurations.

Exhibits:

THN D-221	Wireless Cars - Smart travel and the future of transportation
THN D-013	How Things Move Around Underground - A Physical Model of Ground-Water Flow and Pollutant Transport
THN D-221	Inflation of Rubber Balloons - Nonlinear Mechanics in Action
THN D-221	Computer-Aided Materials by Design: Micromechanics at Its Finest
THN D-221	Enhanced Podcast on Sustainable Transportation - An Example Class Project
THN D-221	River Engineering - Rivers on the Land and in the Lab

Computer Science
Computer scientists create applications of computers to help people do their jobs, protect people from danger, automate tedious tasks, organize information and even entertain, including creating interactive computer graphics, virtual reality, robotics and artificial intelligence, networking, databases, and real time systems. There's more to computing than programming; designing advanced applications requires studying questions about how to improve speed, efficiency, and reliability in both hardware and software. Computers are used in nearly every other field, and computer scientists in turn use ideas and techniques from other disciplines in their work, especially mathematics and engineering.

Exhibits (Olsson Hall, 2nd Floor):

Activities
9:00 - 3:00	Industry Marketplace, Demonstrations, Posters
9:00 - 3:00	Computer Science Program at UVa (1-on-1 meetings with professors) in OLS 228/236
10:00 - 11:00	CS Student Panel
11:00 - 12:00	CS Industry Panel: Cigital, IBM, Mitre and Rosetta Stone
1:00 - 2:30	CS Department
6:00 - 9:00	Alumni Reception and Dinner
Exhibits
OLS 228/236	Wireless Sensor Networks: Body Quality of Service: Protecting Important Signals from Wireless Interference
OLS 228/236	Smart Clothes: Embedded Sensing and Computing Devices that Monitor Personal Day-To-Day Activities
OLS 228/236	Hot Or Not: Real-Time Temperature Monitoring of CPUs
OLS 228/236	Vinelab: Sensing for Indoor Environments
OLS 228/236	MetroNet: Collaborative Data-Sharing of Sensor Streams on the World-Wide Web

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical engineers find new ways of using electricity and electronic devices to improve technology and turn ideas into reality. They use their knowledge of science and mathematics to design and build microelectronic circuits, robots, communication systems and computers. In addition, they use their knowledge of physics and materials to develop new technologies for faster and more capable electronic devices, which find application in computers, radio astronomy, lasers, aircraft and medicine, among other fields.

Some venues are subject to change. On the day of the event, the ECE main office at Thornton Hall will have posters directing visitors to the demos. Please view photos and video from last year's ECE Open House demonstrations.

Exhibits:

MSE 210	Light Interference Experiment and Solar Cells
THN C308	VLSI Design and Large Scale Integrated Circuit Design
THN C310/311	The Remote 5th Sense: Tele-Touch Using MEMS
THN E-106	Wireless Body-Area Sensor Networks for Medical Applications
THN Cleanroom	How Does One See Atoms? An animated tutorial
THN E111	Seeing Atoms with an STM
THN Cleanroom	Tour of the Cleanroom
THN C310/311	Understanding Molecular Electronics
THN C309	Magnetic Suspension by Feedback Control
THN C312	Wireless EKG Patch
THN C310/311	Concepts from Analog and Digital Controls
THN C310/311	Lego Robot Demos (Tentative)

NB: Some Venues are Subject to Change. On the day of the event, the EE main office at Thornton Hall will have posters directing visitors to the demos.

Materials Science and Engineering
Materials scientists and engineers develop new materials, new processing technology and new understanding of the connections between materials' structures and properties. Materials (including metals, ceramics, semiconductors and polymers) represent the key to improving current technologies as well as the key to enabling new technologies never before imagined.

Exhibits:

MSE 103, 110	Atomic Scale Imaging with Transmission Electron Microscopy by Ms. Tabitha Apple
MSE 112	Focused Ion Beam Microscopy: The Atomic Scalpel by Mr. Tim Herlihy
MSE 116	Nanoscale Imaging with Scanning Electron Microscopy by Mr. Aaron Sellinger
MSE 3rd Floor	The Science and Engineering of Electrochemistry and Materials Failure by Mr. Derek Horton
Wilsdorf 3rd Floor	Computational Materials by Mr. Kiril Simov
Wilsdorf 115	See Atoms with the Scanning Atomic Microscope by Prof. Petra Reinke
Wilsdorf 019	Advanced Laser Processing of Metals, Ceramics and Polymers by Mr. Tomohiro Aburada

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is a combined department. Mechanical engineering is one of the largest, broadest, and oldest engineering disciplines. Mechanical engineers use the principles of energy, materials, and mechanics to design and manufacture machines and devices of all types. They create the processes and systems that drive technology and industry. The key characteristics of the profession are its breadth, flexibility, and individuality. The career paths of mechanical engineers are largely determined by individual choices, a decided advantage in a changing world. Aerospace engineers create machines, from airplanes that weigh over a half a million pounds to spacecraft that travel over 17,000 miles an hour. Aerospace engineers develop new technologies for use in aviation, defense systems, and space exploration, often specializing in areas such as structural design, guidance, navigation and control, instrumentation and communication, or production methods.

Exhibits:

N. Entrance MEC	Hy-V
N. Entrance MEC	Mini Baja Vehicle
MEC 214	Heat and Mass Transfer Studio
MEC 215	Hoo's Flying student airplane design competition
MEC 218	Advanced Mechatronics Students
The Center	Center for Applied Biomechanics

Permanent Exhibits:

MEC 341	Frederick J. Morse Historic Photo Collection
MEC 339	Aviation Art Collection
3rd Fl, S. Foyer	Russian Aircraft Models Collection
MEC 305	Retired Mechanical & Aerospace Faculty Photo Collection
MEC 205	NASA Space Art Collection
MEC 215	UVA Family Original Artworks Collection
Presentations
MEC 339	Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UVA: Hossein Haj-Hariri, Professor and Chair of MAE (10:30 - 11:00 a.m)
MEC 339	Robert J. Ribando, Heat and Mass Transfer Studio (11:00 - 11:30 a.m.)
MEC 341	Paul Allaire /The Virginia Heart Pump Project (11:30 a.m.)
MEC 341	Larry G Richards /Engineering Greats (12:00 noon )

Science, Technology, and Society
This department provides the ethical, sociological, historical, and communication components of professional engineering education in the SEAS. STS courses encourage students to think about their role as engineers and scientists in society, and to speak and write effectively. Faculty in STS, who are trained in a variety of disciplines from the humanities and social sciences, conduct research on the intellectual, social, and cultural contexts of technology and technological change.

Exhibits:

Thornton Hall Lobby

Information and Display Table

Systems and Information Engineering
Systems engineering focuses on the big picture of system integration and analysis. Systems engineers seek solutions to large-scale, complex problems that require the integration of technological, organizational, human and economic factors. They are skillful in the use of analytical and computational techniques, problem solving methodologies and eclectic solution design.

Exhibits:

002	Social Norms Approach at the Foxfield Races
009	Risk-Cost-Benefit Analysis for Long-Range Transportation Planning
011	WebCAT: Online Crime Analysis
102F	Mental Health Collaboration Database
005	Virtual Reality for Medical Professionals
111	SISA Incident Reporting: US-Brazil Exchange
1st floor hallway	Systems Engineering INCOSE Question and Answer Session

General Curriculum and Admissions Information

For visitors with interests in general aspects of the Engineering School undergraduate curriculum, applying for admission, or the Rodman Scholars program, U.Va. Dean of Admissions John Blackburn and Engineering School Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs Paxton Marshall will make presentations, and be available for questions, in Room MEC 205, at 11:00 a.m. and at noon.

Persons interested in curriculum details for School undergraduate major programs may inquire of faculty in individual departments present for the Open House.

Scheduled Events

Special Presentation

Prof. Kathryn Thornton, former astronaut and Associate Dean for Graduate Programs
"Sights and Sounds of Space Flight"
Room MEC 205, 1:00 PM

Map, Directions, Parking

Building names and codes Map no. Name Code name 46 Thornton Hall THN 9 Chemical Engineering CHE 24 Materials Science and Engineering MSE 27 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering MEC 38 Olsson Hall OLS 48 Wilsdorf Hall   8 Central Grounds Parking Garage		For the Engineering School complex: THN-A is on the north side; THN-E is on the east side (with usual entrance midway north-south); THN-C joins THN-E, southward; THN-D is on the west side (with usual entrance midway north-south); THN-B joins THN-D, northward.

Directions and Parking
The University of Virginia is located in Charlottesville, Virginia, approximately 120 miles southwest of Washington, D.C. Two major highways, Interstate 64 and US 29, intersect close to the University Grounds. Ample hourly parking is available in the Visitors' Parking Garage on Emmet Street, about a block south of the intersection with University Avenue. The parking garage does have parking spaces designated for persons with disabilities.

From I-64, take exit 118B onto the 29/250 Bypass; then take the second exit (250 East Business), making a right at the top of the ramp and then another right, roughly a mile later, onto Emmet Street. From US 29, follow the signs to Business 29, which becomes Emmet Street. The Visitors' Parking Garage will be on your left.

To reach US 29 from the Northeast, take I-495 around Washington to I-66 West. From I-66 West, take the exit marked "US 29 South - Gainesville." Travel on US 29S into Charlottesville where it will turn into Emmet Street. Emmet Street will lead you to the University. The Visitors' Parking Garage will be on your left. If you reach the Jefferson Park Avenue (JPA) traffic light, you have gone too far. See the U.Va. Webmap (Offsite).

To download a PDF file containing directions to the University (PDF)!

You can also use Google Maps (Offsite) with the following address to get directions to the Visitor's Parking Garage: 400 Emmet St. South, Charlottesville, VA 22903.

Note: Please do not park in the Education School lots across from Thornton Hall (46 on the map above). All three lots by Ruffner are off limits.

Tours

For the Open House, the Engineering Student Council offers student-led interactive tours of the School main complex and Exhibits. Tour groups form at a table in THN-A Lobby. Often this form of tour provides a better way to learn about School matters.

Walking Tour to MR5, the Biomedical Engineering Building
Tour #1 (10:00 - 11:00 AM)
Tour #2 (2:15 - 3:15 PM)
Meet in Wilsdorf 210G, at least 5 minutes before tour is scheduled to begin. Visit BME's state-of-the-art labs and teaching space. Guided by graduate and undergraduate students.

Other Information

Near the Registration Table, other information tables will be set up: information on special curriculum programs, student organizations, other matters.

Center for Diversity in Engineering

In connection with this Open House, the Center for Diversity in Engineering organizes special programs - information sessions, tours, etc. These activities are open to all interested persons. Individuals or groups interested in participating in these activities are encouraged to contact:

Center for Diversity in Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Thornton Hall, University of Virginia
P. O. Box 400255
Charlottesville VA 22904-4255
Telephone: 434-924-0604
e-mail: cv5d@virginia.edu

Society of Women Engineers High School Visitation: SWE Schedule (PDF)
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers: Juntos Podemos Schedule of Events (PDF)

Engineering Alumni Table

What's it like to be an engineer? Several of our alumni will be available to meet with interested students and visitors. Visit the Engineering Alumni Table to talk to an engineer about engineering careers and opportunities.